Tuesday, 4 December 2018

Norton legislator Temba Mliswa continues to hog
the limelight for the wrong reasons after he was chased away from the
Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and
Rural Resettlement where he had barged into a meeting for an unspecified
agenda.

Honourable Mliswa, who also chairs the Parliamentary
Portfolio Committee on Mines and Mining Development, is currently in the eye of
a storm after a failed attempt on Monday to discuss the Hwange Colliery Company
reconstruction despite the matter being before the courts, making it sub
judice.

Hardly a day after he unsuccessfully tried to push through
the oral evidence session of the Mines and Mining DevelopmentCommittee to deliberate on the reconstruction
of Hwange Colliery Company despite the matter being before the courts, Mliswa
this Tuesday allegedly barged into the Lands Committee unannounced, claiming he
was sent by unnamed powers-that-be to represent their interests in the
committee.

Committee chairGokwe Nembudziya legislator, Justice Mayor Wadyajena,
confirmed that the committee chased him away because he is not a member of the
committee.

Efforts to get Mliswa’s reasons for
gate-crashing the meeting proved fruitless as he was not picking up his phone.

Following yesterday’s debacle, Mliswa, in apologising for
his behaviour, coupled with poor judgement, hinted that he might reconsider his
position as chairman of the Mines Committee.

As Chairperson of the Mines Committee, Mliswa
has attracted unwarranted attention to himself in the past with probably his
altercation with the then Minister of Home Affairs Dr Obert Mpofu being the
highlight.

Dr Mpofu refused to give evidence before Mliswa
citing his demeanour when he once visited him at his home nicodemously as the
excuse.

He also clashed with Dr Daniel Shumba who he accused of
exhibiting extortionist tendencies while he was the then chairman of the Mines
and Energy Committee and had said Mliswa was a power hungry legislator who
wanted to upstage him from his position.

He later chaired the committee after Dr Shumba was fired
from Zanu PF and subsequently recalled from parliament. zbc